WORCESTER – With the score tied at the end of regulation Wednesday afternoon, each team had to be having certain overriding thoughts going through their minds.

Methacton High had been on a roll of late, having won five matches in a row.

Owen J. Roberts had been in two previous overtime matches, and had lost both of them.

The goals had been coming for the Warriors while closing out tight games down the stretch had been tough for the Wildcats.

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The first overtime was like most of the rest of the game, each team getting opportunities but unable to capitalize.

But in the seventh minute of the second overtime session, OJR’s Shane Kelly got the ball going down the middle, slicing between two defenders and getting off the shot, this one changing the common thought for both teams as the Wildcats beat Methacton, 2-1.

“You want to go in there and make a play,” said Kelly, the junior scoring his third goal on the season. “It just happened. I got the ball, beat one, beat two and finished it.”

“All you are thinking is just put it in the back of the net.”

Methacton dropped to 7-5-1 overall and 5-3-1 in the Pioneer Athletic Conference with the loss while OJR improved to 4-4-2 and 4-3-1. The Wildcats swept the season series with the Warriors, also winning 2-0 back on Sept. 5.

“It’s maddening,” Methacton head coach Brian Robbins said. “The shots have been going in lately. We won five in a row. We had sliding goals, diving goals, everything, and (Wednesday), none of that.”

For Owen J. Roberts, the third time was the charm in overtime.

“In the overtime, I told them they had to have a sense of urgency,” head coach Eric Wentzel said. “I always tell them they make their own luck.

“Go make a play, and Shane did that here.”

The teams played a scoreless first half. Neither team were really able to take control and dictate play. After getting off only four shots in the opening 40 minutes, Owen J. had taken four more in the first seven minutes of the second half. It was the fifth one, however, at the 8:15 mark by Luke Brower, that had put the visitors on the board first.

Methacton responded a little over five minutes later when Tony Rajabi fed a pass in front from the right side, which Matt Carey headed into the net. The Warriors would have the most chances in the second half, but nothing else caught the net.

“It’s tough, it’s frustrating, but it happens,” Carey said. “We just need to win the rest of our games and hope for the best.”

The Warriors would also have the best chance in the first overtime, but to no avail.

“In the beginning of the year,” Robbins said, “it was worrisome if we went down. But of late, that hasn’t been the same. I was confident we would do it (Wednesday).”

Both teams reside in the Liberty Division of the PAC-10. Other than Boyertown at the top of the standings, the other four are pretty well bunched up, Spring-Ford entering last night’s match with the Bears (9-1 league) with two league losses while Perk Valley, Owen J. and Methacton all now have three.